Executive ties staunch flow of fresh blood

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BRITAIN’S boardrooms are friendly places. The Power 100, the guide to who really wields the influence in corporate Britain, published in The Times today, shows just how inter-linked are the boards of our top companies. Despite the fortunes that are paid to headhunters in an effort to counter any allegations of an Old Boys’ Club approach to recruitment, it seems that familiarity is what continues to open the boardroom door.

Ten years ago, a FTSE 100 chairman related to me his shocked reaction when headhunters put forward a candidate for the role of non-executive deputy chairman. “I had never met